Dressing for the Graduation ceremony

Posted on April 02, 2015

The 2015 autumn graduation ceremony will begin on the  14  April, 85 years after the first graduation ceremony took place in October 1930. Academic dress is compulsory for all graduates and graduates has since the late 1940s obtained the customary hood, cap  and gown from Dippenaar & Reinecke as shown here in a Perdeby advert and note from 1947.

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